An 8-year-old girl has gone viral after conducting her own research on what attracts magpies to swoop. Here's what she found out.

Their beautiful warble is a quintessential Australian sound and ... just to get away from this magpie. Australians are well accustomed to swooping birds - there are plovers, noisy miners and ...

Spring is in the air and with it comes swooping season for the infamous magpie birds. These iconic black and white birds, native to Australia, are generally charming songbirds, but during breeding ...

"Pretty well every spring time there's magpies swooping. Most of them are fairly civilised about it but occasionally there's one that takes it very seriously and may draw blood. "But most of the ...

Collingwood ruckman Darren Jolly is warning the community that the swooping season has arrived with Australian Magpies and other birds swooping to protect their eggs. Jolly has joined forces with the ...

The start of spring coincides with magpie swooping season ... and also literally wrote the book on Australian magpies. She said magpies were amongst the most intelligent songbirds in the southern ...

Griffith University magpie expert Darryl Jones told Canberra’s The Riot Act that magpies could step up their swooping and Canberra was a hub for the birds.

They also urged residents to: - Avoid the area where magpies are nesting. - Walk quickly, but don't run Protect your head with an umbrella, hat or helmet (ice cream tubs also work) - Wear glasses ...

Australian magpies generally live in social groups of between two and 12 individuals, cooperatively occupying and defending their territory through song choruses and aggressive behaviours (such as ...

Spring time in Australia represents more than just blooming flowers, it also brings with it swooping season for magpies. Some magpies can be fierce defenders of their territory.